Best 3 quotes of Amitava Kumar on MyQuotes

Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books were odd, all of them ‘unfinished’ the way Chopin’s Études are unfinished: no wasted gestures, no unnecessary notes.

The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.

There is no point in fighting condescension with condescension.